The Bridge

5:00 PM

Seriously, I make an effort to post times in posts as UTC despite being in UTC -0500. Certain OTHER PEOPLE insist on using their UTC +0100 (+0200 in DST?) times.

agent86

@Powerlord then you should totally change it

Powerlord

@agent86 Can't, at work.

agent86

I'll support you quietly, from back here, outside the range of any lazers

Powerlord

While Meta isn't blocked, Meta's login button redirects to Gaming's login page

agent86

suuuucks

well, put it on your queue for later then :P

Powerlord

5:01 PM

Also, for whatever reason, logging on to other sites first still doesn't log me into Gaming Meta. I assume because Gaming is blocked.

Raven Dreamer

What is UTC - 500. IS that the same as GST -500?

agent86

All I know is what time it is here. sometimes I can't keep track of that even.

Nick T

@RavenDreamer GST is a bit anglocentric, people use UTC now

Raven Dreamer

But GST = same base as UTC?

Martin Sojka

@RavenDreamer In the sense that they are both based on the rotation of Earth around the Sun and the rotation of Earth around its own axis, yes. They differ from each other by up to 0.9s though.

Raven Dreamer

5:13 PM

@MartinSojka GST+ 0000 = same time zone as UTC + 0000 ?

Aeo

@RavenDreamer I'm not familiar enough with GST to know if this answer is actually useful or not... wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-500+UTC+to+GST

Martin Sojka

@RavenDreamer No modern time zone is defined in terms of the GST. Your question is meaningless.

agent86

these snorgtees ads always bother me. it's like every girl has EE cup breasts and that's where 80% of her body weight is.

feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EAHM1O-eyFRNzwyIpZbhAQYPvMQ/1/di

I'm fairly certain they're just poorly 'shopped

Raven Dreamer

@MartinSojka Now you're just being intentionally obtuse.

Lazers

1

Q: Precisely how does Rammus's movespeed boost (powerball) work?

Rammus goes faster during Powerball. Unlike almost every other ability in the game, the tooltip for Powerball doesn't specify how much of a speed increase Rammus receives. Mobafire, Leaguecraft, and SoloMid don't appear to have specifics available, either. Does the ability in general increase yo...

league-of-legends

2

Q: What is Resolve?

In PvP matches there is a special “Resolve” meter. It seems to fill up during fights and then it slowly goes down. How exactly does it work? What does it affect?

star-wars-tor

0

Q: Accessing bonus campaigns in L4D game of the year edition

I have the L4D game of the year edition and I understand there are 3 new campaigns that are on the disc. When I played through with a friend I did not see an option to play Crash Course, The Sacrifice or The Last Stand. Are these only available in single player? Do I have to do something in th...

left-4-dead

Raven Dreamer

5:15 PM

If a city is in the GST - 500 timezone, does that mean the same city is in the UTC - 500 timezone?

Martin Sojka

@RavenDreamer If a city is in the UTC-0500 time zone, its time is roughly 5 hours "behind" GST, +/- 0.9 seconds.

That's why UTC has leap seconds (23:59:60) every now and then, to keep the two coordinated.

Raven Dreamer

I'm not concerned with seconds. All I want to know is if they agree on the number of Hours.

Martin Sojka

@RavenDreamer You know there are time zones like UTC+0930 and UTC+1245, and that there were ones like GMT+07:36:41 in the past, right? :)

That was in Hong Kong between 1885 and 1904, in case somebody is too lazy to read the article.

alexanderpas

@MartinSojka no need to read the article, just hover the link.

Raven Dreamer

5:34 PM

bluh

Updating my systems in the wrong order meant my object never had a chance to jump before it landed and stopped jumping.

Lazers

1

Q: How is the default price of an item in GTM determined?

When I try to sell an item through the Galactic Trade Market, some price is automatically assigned to the item. I can then change the price, but I think many players will keep the default one. How is this price determined? Is it somehow based on the state of the economy on the server? Or is it a...

star-wars-tor trading

alexanderpas

lets see how this pans out:

reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/nioib/…

Basil

How does the gtm work? Is it per server or global?

Powerlord

Is GST different than GMT?

> Both Seagate and Western Digital have reduced their hard drive warranties, in some cases from five years to one year.

The same year your factories in Thailand flood?

badp

@Powerlord They're both not correct, so does it really matter?

@alexanderpas TIL? Is that a question? :P

alexanderpas

5:43 PM

@badp another UTC lover?

badp

Yes, you learned!

Powerlord

@badp I know they aren't corrupt.

badp

@alexanderpas Unpossibly Crazy Timezone? Oh, please.

Powerlord

@alexanderpas You forget, this is the guy who refers to +0100 UTC as "Correct Earth Time"

alexanderpas

@badp Ultimate Timezone Correctness.

@Powerlord I'm in CET too ;)

badp

5:44 PM

@alexanderpas Tsk, 'UTC' isn't even an acronym at all

Ultimate Timezone Compromise, perhaps

Powerlord

@badp Yes it is, Universal Time Coordinated.

alexanderpas

Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (abbreviated UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. Computer servers, online services and other entities that rely on having a universally accepted time use UTC for that purpose. If only limited precision is needed, clients can obtain the current UTC time from a number of official internet UTC servers. For sub-microsecond precision, clients can obtain the time from satellite signals. Time zones around the world are expressed as positive or negative ...

badp

@Powerlord [citation-needed] (see above)

@alexanderpas They've agreed to use UTC because it's not an acronym in any language.

How can that be possibly correct?

alexanderpas

@badp English speakers originally proposed "CUT" (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed "TUC" (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC

badp

You know CET is correct because even those who got first dibs on timezone choosing, those pesky brits, have to borrow our timezone from us six months a year.

alexanderpas

5:48 PM

@badp that's because they steal it from us.

Powerlord

@badp That's because the brits participate in Decidedly Stupid Time

badp

They won't obviously admit it and hide it behind the 'BST' monicker, as if it was still British.

@alexanderpas Well, we lend it to them because we're awesome and we realize having the chance to have the Correct Earth Time six months a year is already a great gift. Plus you get to see them Brits humiliated in using our timezone.

Think of those Americans though

Always wrong with their heretic timezones, no matter what

agent86

you guys and your timezone fights :P it's worse than sports fans and sports teams, or programmers and programming languages (although perl SUCKS.)

badp

@agent86 Go back to China

Basil

COBOL > perl

alexanderpas

5:50 PM

@badp and even then, we still have Correct Earth Summer Time ;)

agent86

@badp China? How do I go back to somewhere I've never been? :P

badp

@agent86 China has one timezone for the entire country, where Russia has five

So if you have timezone fights, you'll have a hell of a time(zone) there.

alexanderpas

@Basil COBOL = moneymaker.

agent86

see, this is way more than I know about timezones. I just carry my cell around, and it tells me what time it is, and then I ignore that shit cause I eat when I'm hungry and sleep when I'm tired.

speaking of hungry, I've been informed there are cookies in this building. I GO NOW TO EAT ONE

badp

@agent86 You're a yank. Not big suprise.

:P

Basil

5:52 PM

I like the concept of perl, but I find it annoyingly permissive

"How do I do [xyz]" "There are so many ways! let's talk about how awesome perl is!"

badp

"Sigils are stupid and make me feel I'm using PHP or whatever. How do I do Perl without sigils?"

Powerlord

@badp Russia is considerably wider than China is. Russia stretches all the way from the eastern edge of Finland to the Pacific ocean.

badp

@Powerlord I know Russia has like 9 timezones

perhaps 10

China's still much wider than one timezone

yet it's Beijing time for everybody. Hooray!

even if you're bordering with like Vietnam (or was it India)

Powerlord

(Right, I should know better than to feed the troll)

Anyway, to get back on topic, the point of this was that people know what their time zones UTC offset is.

So, why are we basing times off of CET, which requires people to click a link to figure it out because they don't know what their time offset is from it?

I'll add to this point that StackExchange does all times as UTC... as you'll find out if you schedule events.

badp

if I have to guess - because I am going to do the locking so I might as well use my own timezone.

Powerlord

6:00 PM

@badp Except it's an informative message for other people, not yourself.

badp

Then just go ahead and edit it for pete's sake

if it really does bother you that much

Powerlord

1 hour ago, by Powerlord

@agent86 Can't, at work.

badp

you weren't at work yesterday

and now that you're at work you can't see it and it can't offend you

if you don't recall about it tonight while you come back, it probably means it wasn't that important

Powerlord

1 hour ago, by Powerlord

While Meta isn't blocked, Meta's login button redirects to Gaming's login page

badp

and if it's just you that cares about it... perhaps your whole point is invalid, now, isn't it

@Powerlord if you really care that much, tether

Powerlord

6:04 PM

@badp My phone is a plain old, boring "feature" phone.

badp

(Right, I should know better than to feed the troll)

anyway, the topic was giving reputation away to worthy posts, so please do nominate worthy posts

Basil

insert coin

or...

badp

without the question mark

Powerlord

press 1p start

agent86

@Basil not sure if you're trying to get the "asteroids" game to start, but you need to send a message that is just "insert coin" to trigger it

Basil

6:12 PM

insert coin

fun

Matthew Read

@Powerlord How did you guess? :P

Powerlord

@MatthewRead Because "Bound" (or SoulBound) is a common term in MMOs. Also known as Bind to Player or Bind to Account.

Well, no, Bind to Account is slightly different.

I could explain what Bind to Player means, but I'm assuming someone already did in that thread.

Lazers

0

Q: A way to make memory card loads faster with epsxe?

I've googled around for this but couldn't find a result. Besides using the quick-save/load feature of epsxe, is there a way to make the memory card become "detected" quicker for certain games? I'm playing FF7 again, and I like to use the save points as kind of a peace-of-mind backup. When I go...

emulation

0

Q: game show game from my childhood

When i was a kid (1990 - 1994 range) I lived in Israel and I remember a game show where people would call in and use theif phone as a controller (using the keys as a dpad and such). The gist of the game was a bunch of minature puzzles/quicktime events. There were various levels but i remember ...

identify-this-game

Basil

So is the swtor game's auction house global or server specific?

Powerlord

@Basil As far as I can tell, server specific.

Basil

6:25 PM

faction too?

Powerlord

There aren't enough items in it in the categories I was looking in for it to be global.

(and seriously, not a single Force Sensitive Mod slot item on it?)

Matthew Read

@Powerlord I was being sarcastic, I knew how you knew lol. I figured it was common MMO terminology but thought I should ask anyways

Powerlord

@Basil Very likely.

I either need to make my own Cybertech guy or convince one of my friends to take Cybertech.

Basil

@Powerlord I wonder if this game has staying power- wow shot itself in the foot by blowing its load on 4.3 when the next expansion is still so far away

Powerlord

I need to ask Chris what his characters are doing. I know we have one Synthweave and one Armormech already.

Basil

6:27 PM

so for the next year, people will be looking for alternatives

@Powerlord I heard professions are gated by crafting time- is that right?

Powerlord

@Basil Not only that, but the lack of a single main enemy in the next expansion makes it feel somewhat undirected.

@Basil Basically... you send one or more of your companions to do crafting.

You don't do crafting yourself.

Basil

@Powerlord Meh, people played expansions without ever seeing the end boss.

Powerlord

Your companions also have different crafting bonuses. For instance, the default Sith Inquisitor one has +15 Artificing (cuts Artficing time) and +5 Investigation

Basil

@Powerlord No addons, though, right?

Powerlord

@Basil Not sure what you mean by that...

Basil

6:30 PM

@Powerlord Part of what makes playing the economy in wow interesting is that people write addons that make players really effective at being merchants

My understanding is that the entire star wars game is addon-free

Powerlord

Depending on the profession, you may randomly produce superior equipment (Synthweaving does this) or learn a recipe for a better version (Artificing does this).

@Basil OK, you did mean what I thought you meant. To be honest, I'm not sure.

I got confused when I looked in my Artificing window and noticed I suddenly had green and blue versions of Resolve Hilt 4.

(hilt = lightsaber hilt)

Basil

ah :)

Well, if star wars ever gets bigger than wow, I'll probably make the jump.

Powerlord

It sucks because I still only have one companion. Once you have 2 or more, you can send one off on missions while you quest with the other.

Aeo

@Basil I can vouch for that... I didn't even bother with the auction house without an installation of Auctioneer installed...

Basil

how do you get more?

Powerlord

6:33 PM

@Basil More join you as you complete storyline quests.

Basil

@Aeo You should try auctionator- I made the switch a year ago and never looked back

Powerlord

I've heard I'm going to get a second as soon as I complete the next area I'm in.

Basil

@Powerlord Is there a limit to the number you can have?

Powerlord

@Basil Is it faster than Auctioneer? I hated waited for its scans to complete.

@Basil 7, I think.

But only 1 accompanies you at any time, so send the others on various crafting stuff.

Basil

Auctioneer does absolutely nothing better than auctionator or tradeskillmaster

Powerlord

6:34 PM

Basically, 2 of the 3 trade skills you'll have will have missions to get crafting components.

Basil

It's a constant surprise to me that they keep on releasing stable versions

even if they are a week before the next patch

@Powerlord Can crafting components be bought from other players?

Powerlord

OH, btw, best feature of SWTOR? You can send your companion to sell off all the grey items in your inventory. \o/

Basil

lol

Powerlord

@Basil Yes.

The selling grey items thing makes them leave for 60 seconds.

But still, it's worth it when half your inventory is full of grey stuff, particularly if you're about to board a speeder anyway

Basil

I dont know why new games insist on making the same design choices on things like grey loot when they could do anything they wanted instead of copying the last generation

instead of grey items, they could drop more currency, and only have items that are useful in some way

Powerlord

6:37 PM

Well, at least the corpse glows different colors based on what kind of loot it has.

Actually, they have beacons on corpses. If you've ever played Star Wars Galaxies, they look like the quest beacons from that.

Basil

right, so it's not inferior to what exists, but I wish they'd sack up and make some interesting innovations

Aeo

@Basil I'll keep that in mind if I ever go back. I played through the release content of Cataclysm, then quit before having to pay for another month. lol - Am trying SW:TOR though. Soon as my friend gets his copy. (pre-ordering it today supposedly)

John

Mining hat GET! :D

Powerlord

Corpses that have normal loot have a blueish-white light, yellowish for quest items, green, blue, etc... for items of that color.

John

It goes great with my "Lump of coal" hat. :P

Powerlord

6:39 PM

Honestly, SWTOR uses the same loot colors as WoW does.

grey, white, green, blue, purple, orange.

Basil

Is there anything in the ToS against buying and selling in game items for real money?

Powerlord

@Basil I don't remember, but very likely.

Their ToS should be online.

Basil

true

John

@GnomeSlice Have you tried running it yet? I just get a black screen with the words "Sleep is Death (Geisterfahrer)". Nothing appears to happen from there. As for the whole "networking" thing, have you ever tried Hamachi?

Lazers

0

Q: What are the differences between different platforms in Dungeon Defenders?

I have both the PC version, through Steam, and the PS3 version of Dungeon Defenders. I have maxed out the level of my Squire on PS3, and was surprised to find that on the PC I could raise skill points to a base level of 100 on my Apprentice on the PC version (the PS3 version seems to cap the s...

dungeon-defenders version-differences

0

Q: How do the Skylanders figurines work?

According to press content: Action Figures with Brains Skylanders are special physical action figures that come to life in-game. Just take a Skylander, place it on the included Portal of Power, which is synched to your game console and a representation of your chosen Skylander will come ...

skylanders

0

Q: How do the Skylanders figurines work?

What technologies do the Skylanders figurines use? NFC, Bluetooth, RFID, something homegrown? What would it take to hack that? I don't want to buy all the figurines, but I want to experience the content. I'm not trying to cheat other players, just experience the full gameplay available.

cheats hacks skylanders

John

6:51 PM

Lol Community has a hat.

Powerlord

@John Scrooge?

agent86

OHHHHH SNAP - MAJOR STEAM HOLIDAY SALE LAUNCH!

5

Powerlord

@Lazers Well, for one, they only ask a single question.

@agent86 I'm surprised it's this late. Then again, I seem to recall the sales starting on Monday last year.

John

@Powerlord No, editor. How would it get Scrooge? Can community close questions?

@GnomeSlice Apparently I have to press spacebar.... :P

Dave McClelland

Community also has Lump of Coal

John

6:54 PM

@agent86 Those are some 5 digit numbers...

Dave McClelland

@agent86 Well, crap... goodbye money

Raven Dreamer

@Powerlord Two different questions, same title. It was a poor choice and has since been edited.

John

@DaveMcClelland Again, how?

Dave McClelland

@John No idea, I guess Community's become self-aware

Powerlord

@John All votes from deleted users are attributed to Community

John

6:55 PM

@DaveMcClelland Oh yeah, just remembered, that happened a while ago.

@Powerlord Make me wonder what user with >125 rep was deleted in the past 2 days...

Dave McClelland

Does anyone else see Metro 2033 as on sale at 0% off? What a deal!

agent86

what, free games, what? holy crap? WHAT? store.steampowered.com/holidaysale

and that page crashed.

Powerlord

@DaveMcClelland Leftover from yesterday's wishlist sale, likely.

John

@agent86 Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to store.steampowered.com

Dave McClelland

@John Yeah, my computer failed on that too

Powerlord

6:57 PM

I've noticed that Steam sometimes doesn't remove the old % off box, but updates to show it's 0% off instead.

agent86

apparently some sort of promotion wherein getting certain holiday-themed achievements in certain games will earn you either free games or contest entries

Powerlord

@agent86 So, just like the Summer Sale?

Dave McClelland

neato

agent86

@Powerlord I think the summer sale, but moreso

Powerlord

Please, for the LOVE of ALL that's holy, tell me that Super Meat Boy isn't one of those games...

2

John

6:57 PM

@agent86 Awesome. Where can I find a list of the achievements?

agent86

@John the page I linked, supposedly. valve servers are taking a big dump though.

Raven Dreamer

@Powerlord It isn't. Not today, at least.

Powerlord

@John There was a post about them on SPUF.

Raven Dreamer

Gimme a sec, I'll get to the bottom of it.

murgatroid99

If you look at the giveaway prizes, the grand prize is ALL OF THE GAMES ON STEAM

2

Powerlord

6:58 PM

(Steam Powered User Forum)

Dave McClelland

Argh, time for a meeting. I'll see you guys in a bit

John

@Powerlord Ah gotcha.

Powerlord

@murgatroid99 So, I have some achievements to get, eh?

Granted, I own like half the games on Steam already...

(slight exaggeration, but eh)

John

@Powerlord Then you can gift the half you already have to me. :P

Powerlord

@John Only if you get the other half as giftable.

John

7:00 PM

Oh good. @agent86's second page is back up.

agent86

man, I want to see the indie bundles :/

still getting 503's here

Ullallulloo

@agent86 I finally got through.

murgatroid99

Sadly I own none of the games that have acheivements today

John

Aw maaaan. Click on the "Click here to get your first gift!" -> 503 :(

Ullallulloo

The games with achievements today are: Orcs Must Die!, Bunch of Heroes, EDGE, Cargo! The Quest for Gravity, & Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

badp

7:02 PM

@John I know

@Ullallulloo what about TF2's?

Ullallulloo

@badp It's not one of today's.

badp

I thought that was the whole point of the otherwise useless "gift grab" achievement

Ullallulloo

@badp No, you have to check each day.

It might be one in a couple days.

badp

"It's still down." hammers Steam harder

John

@badp I could screencap it for you if you like...

user20683

7:04 PM

pile is up

badp

Well it better not be Dec 30th or 31st

agent86

@badp WHY IS THIS OVERLOADED AND NOT WORKING??? (refresh refresh refresh)

John

@badp The free first gift is for looking at your inventory.

badp

The details page loaded at the first try for me

Powerlord

@Ullallulloo All games I don't have.

Well, the first day will be easy.

Grace Note

7:05 PM

Woo, back from the eye doctor.

badp

Steam: 3 objects. "You currently have no items in your Steam inventory"

@GraceNote Do they shoot lazers yet?

Grace Note

Thanks to pupil dilation, it's bright in here. Looks like I'll have to... deal with it.

Powerlord

@Ullallulloo Valve added that achievement to 3 different games: Day of Defeat: Source, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2.

John

@badp Same here.

Basil

badp

7:06 PM

@Powerlord oh, so gifts "drop" from fallen players in CS:S too?

Raven Dreamer

Okay, it looks like the games are the following:

murgatroid99

@John Same with me too

Raven Dreamer

Orcs Must Die

Powerlord

@badp Yup.

John

4 mins ago, by Ullallulloo

The games with achievements today are: Orcs Must Die!, Bunch of Heroes, EDGE, Cargo! The Quest for Gravity, & Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

Raven Dreamer

7:06 PM

Bunch of Heroes

Ah, shucks.

Nevermind then.

is late

Powerlord

I thought about getting EDGE, but the demo didn't seem that fun.

Arda Xi

I remember when EDGE was an iOS app, years ago.

badp

Steam - Check your inventory - you've got a gift!
Orcs Must Die! - Deck the Halls
Bunch of Heroes - Holiday Survivor
EDGE - Snowblind
Cargo! The Quest for Gravity - 2012 - it’s almost there
Anomaly: Warzone Earth - Santa's Challenge

it's doubly fun because except for OMD's achievement, none of those have a description

so it'd be super important to ask about them ASAP

Lazers

0

Q: Why do we need a [ludum-dare] tag?

Minicraft questions are beginning to appear on the site and, while reviewing, I noticed that they've also been tagged with ludum-dare. Seeing this as being roughly equivalent to a series tag, and the Ludum Dare competition not being relevant to the questions, I was going to simply edit them out ...

discussion tags

Ullallulloo

@badp Yes, they do...

Holiday Survivor - Survive up to the 20th wave in Santa's map
Snowblind - Find the six hidden switches in the snow-covered levels in December
2012 - it’s almost there - The Christmas bell tolls! You have been blessed with a present.
Santa's Challenge - Grab 20 Santa's gifts from missions 2-4 to get yourself a nice prize

badp

7:09 PM

@Ullallulloo Oh. Then it's the Italian localization that's fucked up

Raven Dreamer

Back to 503s

Powerlord

Am I blind of were those... yeah, nevermind.

I was going to say posted twice

Raven Dreamer

I want to see what's available on the Great Gift Pile to begin with

John

@RavenDreamer There was a SPUF post about it.

Seemed to be mostly X % off Steam games.

Lazers

1

Q: What is the lowest Land Price I need to get ranked?

I have a shop that has a Land Price (LP) of 11,000. It is enough to get me a small bonus item, but still isn't high enough for me to break into the LP ratings every year. I am tired of my people looking sad when we don't make it. What LP do I need to start getting into these rankings?

venture-towns

Raven Dreamer

7:12 PM

Spuf?

Ullallulloo

@Powerlord My internet speed just dropped a ton.

John

@RavenDreamer S team P owered U ser F orums.

Arda Xi

@RavenDreamer Steam Powered User Forums.

John

Just learned that myself.

Powerlord

14 mins ago, by Powerlord

(Steam Powered User Forum)

Raven Dreamer

7:13 PM

And now a steam restart

Arda Xi

@Powerlord ForumS

Powerlord

@ArdaXi Yes, well, it's way beyond the edit window.

Raven Dreamer

Oops. Steam crashed.

Powerlord

Hey, Steam's slow and not responding? They should release a TF2 update!

agent86

so what does this "SPUF" thing mean exactly </sarcasm>

Powerlord

7:16 PM

@agent86 Stupid Punk, Use Fractions!

agent86

HEY, 1/4th YOU BUDDY.

badp

I'm annoyed at AWE

Powerlord

@badp Advanced Wave Effects?

badp

if it didn't leak save files like liquid blood I'd be able to play the relevant missions immediately

user20683

►

user20683

7:17 PM

Steam right now

Powerlord

►

badp

Can you reproduce the fact Steam inventories aren't loading at all?

steamcommunity.com/id/badp/inventory#440 e.g. says I have 0 tf2 items

agent86

@badp inventory 503's here

badp

(the tab label says they're 153)

@agent86 just reload :P

murgatroid99

@badp Mine has the same exact problem

Ullallulloo

7:19 PM

@badp "You currently have 0 items in your Team Fortress 2 inventory. "

agent86

@badp now it's blank.

badp

yeah, I guess that one is not a problem that will go away with enough F5s

...who am I kidding F5 FIXES ALL THE THINGS

F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5‌F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F‌5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5‌F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5

Powerlord

@Ullallulloo I'd be most concerned if I saw that considering my TF2 inventory has over 400 items in it.

badp

@Powerlord the tab label shows the right number of items, so I'm not too worried

user20683

now it's an error 101

badp

7:21 PM

tf2b also loads normally.

user20683

and back to 503

user20683

and back to live

Ullallulloo

Now the Steam tab started showing up in my inventory...

Now Portal 2...?

Now they're both gone again.

Powerlord

As a reminder, it's still double drop rate week in TF2.

agent86

anybody played bunch of heroes? fun co-op game?

user20683

7:24 PM

no idea

Wipqozn

@agent86 was wondering the same

user20683

EDGE is good if you like marble madness style puzzlers

user30

Steam sale?

user30

Oh god what is this

user20683

their massive achievement laden holiday insanity

user30

7:35 PM

STEAM TELL ME WHAT I HAVE WON

agent86

@ThomasMcDonald you won... A BRAND NEW CAR!

claps

user30

oh Buzz.

user30

I think that was a reference.

Lazers

0

Q: Looking for a particular vertical shooter

Hi I am looking for an arcade vertical shooter, that when you go to the title screen it would give you many ships to choose from I remember it being around 15 to 30 ships.

identify-this-game arcade

user30

buy all the things!

FallenAngelEyes

7:40 PM

Uh, we probably should change this tag: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/…

Before other people see it and start thinking that it's okay if we leave out the hyphens to cram in as much of the title as possible

Yi Jiang

Steam's 503 error code says "Guru Meditation" Isn't that the error message from... uh...

@Lazers That's it? That's it? He must think we're psychics or something

user30

isn't that the whole point of ITG?

Ullallulloo

@ThomasMcDonald No, it's to be as specific as possible, so someone answering can be reasonably sure that they're right.

Yi Jiang

No, that isn't a real question. He might as well have said come, read my mind

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald His question can be summed up as "Looking for a vertical shooter. It had ships."

user30

7:44 PM

I was being sarcastic.

Ullallulloo

@Wipqozn many ships

Wipqozn

@ThomasMcDonald Liar. Why do you insist on lying?

user30

because hats.

Powerlord

@agent86 Now I'm picturing a TF2 toy car item... didn't one of the Call of Duty games have something like that?

Wipqozn

The Dark Knight Rises trailer looks good:

►

Powerlord

7:53 PM

"The Remote" Engineer, melee slot, "+Replaces sentry with mobile combat mini-sentry" "While equipped, you control the mobile combat mini-sentry instead of your Engineer" "-Cannot Repair or Upgrade buildings" "-Cannot be used in spawn room"

agent86

@Powerlord yeah, a "RC-XD" or remote controlled explosive device. Why X? for XXXX-TREEEEME

Powerlord

I think it'd be funny to drive around a mini-sentry.

The "no spawn room" thing would be important, though. Also, you'll note that the Wrangler couldn't be used at the same time you're driving it around. :D

Still, it'd be funny to have a mini-sentry that can dodge rockets and Spies.

Or chase medics.

See, now I'm trying to figure out how to implement that in a plugin.

Transcript for